Word: firings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stepped-up enemy action would bring "strong and effective measures" in response. It was a tough speech, and in it there was no gesture of accommodation to those who backed the Oct. 15 Moratorium protest. The President announced no new withdrawal of U.S. troops and proclaimed no cease-fire on the battlefield...
...President Nixon's address about the war. "It is the greatest and most brilliant speech I have ever known a United States President to make," said Thieu. His exuberance was understandable. Saigon has always bridled at the Viet Nam alternatives discussed in the U.S., such as a cease-fire or massive withdrawals by a specified date-and Nixon called for none of these. Though he refrained from mentioning or endorsing the Saigon regime, his promise that the U.S. would not precipitously abandon its ally was what Thieu really wanted to hear...
...handcuffed behind his back, his legs bound tightly, his eyes blindfolded and his mouth gagged, John V. Lindsay is told he must rescue a drowning New York City (from the polluted Hudson no less). This comes close to describing the present situation. A more modern version of trial by fire cannot be found...
...reported that a plea was made to the new Administration "to set everything straight by taking over full financial responsibility for welfare, setting aside a portion of Federal tax revenues to be given to cities and states on an unrestricted basis to help them pay for schools, police and fire protection, garbage collection and other services." The story was simple: Here comes John. Here comes Nelson. See Dick...
...movie extra and sharpens his knife on a pocket stone. It is 100° in the yard. "There's not much money in ranchin' around here," continues McCorry. "One trouble is the rain. In a year we don't get but ten, eleven inches. We get a lot of fires. A fire last year burned 9,000 acres around here. But we get green grass in November; it lasts till spring...